EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN INDIA Insane heat wave in India and Pakistan with records smashed in pieces every single day. 47C again with 34C at night in Rajastan 46.5C at Ratlam ALL TIME RECORD Next weeks deadly heat with heat indexes up to 60C in Andhra Pradesh.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Sea surface temperatures continued to warm in the far eastern Pacific in April, as El Niño is likely to develop (find trusted sources to follow & not just the hype). Note also the significant marine heatwave stretching from near Hawaii to California/Mexico! Data: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...)

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Wildfires that don't sleep We have the tools to get off this path apnews.com/article/wild...

Reminiscent of the immigrant/expat debate, no? also: "According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), between 2008 and 2024, approximately **22.3 million people** were displaced in the United States due to a range of hazards, including floods, storms, and wildfires." (a low est.)

Wildfires are burning in Georgia and Florida this week. My discussion of how Hurricane Helene from 2 years ago may be making them worse www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Yikes is the contiguous US dry

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

As climate disasters intensify across the U.S., more people are being displaced—but without formal recognition, access to resources remains limited. @kayly.bsky.social examines the potential for new policy pathways: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻: Flooding is a major driver of displacement. Among flood-affected respondents, 80% reported housing destruction as the main reason for leaving. Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/nexugsrdyw #MECMEA #ClimateMobility

Typhoon #Sinlaku hit the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands this morning as a Cat 4, making it the 10th Cat 4 or Cat5 tropical cyclone to hit the U.S. in the past 10 years — an unprecedented battering by these intense storms. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/cate...

The US has an internal displacement problem. We just don't call it that. What can we learn from the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (which marks its 28th anniversary this week) to ensure the displaced recover quickly and with dignity? carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Croplands around the world produced enough calories in 2020 to meet global food needs. Only half were available for human consumption. @gaeacabico.bsky.social reports:

People want to ride bikes

NEW: a new “tour de force” study published in Science finds that the world’s largest-known community of chimpanzees has fractured and engaged in lethal conflict—much like a civil war. Learn more on my latest for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪

BREAKING: Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals are now both considered Endangered, according to the IUCN. As the climate warms, melting sea ice and shifting prey are pushing these species to the brink — hitting young animals the hardest. https://nyti.ms/4sUmzaC

This is catastrophic.

Oil from an Iranian ship struck near the Strait of Hormuz threatens to poison one of the region's most important wetlands. Local fishing communities depend on the mangrove forest for food. If oil reaches them, it's likely to kill the fish they need to survive. share.google/hpVAKkuAVy9J...

This is a key problem of GenAI. If we're using it for the wrong purpose, we're replacing very efficient solutions that don't require much energy with extremely inefficient and imprecise solutions that require huge amounts of energy.

Brazil’s Amazon hydropower plants are becoming vulnerable to climate change, and Belo Monte may be the clearest warning sign yet. Built after years of debate, the mega-dam is facing a problem its planners could not solve with engineering: less water. @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/03/fall...

Data Centers: not popular

Call for inputs for the study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the implications of sea-level rise. Deadline: April 30. www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

Every single one of these agencies does science that emergency managers rely on to be able to do their jobs.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Is your state becoming uninsurable? In CA, insurance prices have gone up by 16% in the last two years, and are about to increase by another 16% this year. grist.org/economics/is...

It broke down in 2024. I think a refiled version passed Congress in December last year, but it doesn't yet seem to have been promulgated. I'm sceptical it'll be useful when passed (its success seems to hinge on being able to establish causality), but I guess we'll see how implementation goes.

Does anyone have updates on Colombia's draft law to “recognize the existence of forced internal displacement due to causes associated with climate change and environmental degradation"? Did it ever pass or has it stalled? english.elpais.com/internationa...

14 Mexicans have died in US immigration custody under the DT regime. Mexico plans to take diplomatic & legal action against the US through US & OAS mechanism. (Anyone else thinking of Avena right now?) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

Climate change comes for one and all. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

Warming oceans are synchronising humid heatwaves. Global, connected, and harder to survive. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One more relevant note on this as the heat event across the Western US continues: A major impetus for our work to help the Northwest prepare for the next extreme heat wave is that an event like the 2021 PNW heat dome is estimated to occur *every 5 to 10 years* with 2°C of global warming.

We already see this. I'm party of an international team of water scientists giving lectures on freshwater to Chinese university students. The first class has 1,500 students and they expect 10,000 to take the course. 10,000! Just on #water issues. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Many countries of origin have shifted from concerns about "brain drain" to actively promoting emigration. New @cgdev.org paper by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social outlines how emigration *can* contribute to growth, but only if the right policies are in place. www.cgdev.org/publication/...

A reminder that there are local people who actually rely on the Strait of Hormuz for food and livelihood. theconfluence.news/p/how-confli...

* EXCLUSIVE- QATARENERGY CEO TELLS REUTERS: WE MAY HAVE TO DECLARE FORCE MAJEURE ON LONG-TERM CONTRACTS FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS FOR LNG SUPPLIES TO ITALY, BELGIUM, KOREA AND CHINA @reuters.com

Many refugee-related aid programs also support host communities—but that connection isn’t always clear. @thomasginn.bsky.social and Travis Baseler find that making the link explicit can significantly improve attitudes toward refugees: https://go.cgdev.org/4rollmN

Important story by my colleague @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social on the threat caused by mining tailings dams, many of which are ill-equipped to withstand worsening extreme weather from climate crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a lot has already been written about the heat wave next week, including @weatherwest.bsky.social’s posts here. But it is hard to describe how truly outlandish the forecast is for next week. This is looking to be so far outside of anything that’s been observed before in March in the western US.

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With the Strait of Hormuz almost entirely closed, fertilizer producers face major disruptions during a critical time of planting season. @noahjgordon.bsky.social and Lucy Corthell break down the potential strain on the global food system: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Some early indications that we may be dealing with a formidable El Nino event by the fall. @bennollweather.bsky.social reports... www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says ✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

No ships at all going through the Strait of Hormuz

Wait. Didn't Kulp & Strauss warn us of this in 2019? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is. Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.